Meat-tenderer.



Patented Sept. 3, IBM.

No. 682,0l8.

F. H. ALLEN. MEAT TENDEREB.

(Application filed May 6, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK I-I. ALLEN, OF NORWICH, CONNECTICUT.

M EAT-TENDERER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. dated September 1901'-Application filed May 6, 1901.

To all whom, it 1mty concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK H. ALLEN, a citizen of the United States,residingat Norwich, in the county of New London and State ofConnecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inMeat-Tenderers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The chief aim of this invention is to provide a cheap, strong, andeffective device for rendering sliced meats, such as beei'steaks, tenderand more easily and completely cooked than has been possible heretofore.

Briefly described, the said invention consists of two sector-shapedplates, one adapted to rock upon the other substantially like twogear-segments, the confronting faces of said sectors being formed withradially-projecting teeth that enter the meat from opposite sides whenthe latter is passed between the said sectors. This results inperforating and slitting the meat in a great number of places and incutting andmacerating its normally tough fibers. It also lays open bothfaces of said meat in such manner that it is the more readily andcompletely acted upon by the fire in the operation of broiling orfrying.

The drawings annexed hereto illustrate my newly-improved meat-tenderer,Figure 1 being an end elevation, and Fig. 2 a front side elevation, ofthe same.

In the drawings, the letter a indicates the lower or fixed sector, and bthe upper or rocking sector, the said sectors being held in operativerelation to each other by connecting-rods c o and also by meshing teethat d, that are located at one side only of the sectors, as seen in thedrawings. The connecting-rods c c are hinged to the sectors at thecenters of the radii of said sectors, and between the upper ends of thesector I) is a bandle e, by means of which the said sector b may beconveniently and forcibly rocked upon the fixed secter. The confrontingfaces of both sectors are formed with projecting spurs g, these spursbeing staggered or offset, so that the spurs of one sector enter thespaces between the spurs of the other sector. The

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spurs g are of such length that they extend nearly, but not quite, tothe confronting face of the opposite sector, and itwill now beunderstood that if a slice of meat be entered between the sectors andthe movable sector rocked forward and backward-that is to say, from theposition in full lines to the position in dotted lines in Fig. 1 andback again to the starting-point-the meat will be punctured, slitted,and macerated on both its upper and lower sides by the described spursg.

It should be particularly noted that in a meat-tenderer of thisdescription only a small part of the meat is being punctured and slittedat any one time, so that only a limited amount of power is required toaccomplish the desired end. It should also be noted that the meat may bestripped from the spurs g after having been operated upon once and maybe repeatedly introduced into the tendering device in difierentpositions, thus making it possible to thoroughly macerate the meat andcut its fibers into short sections.

Having thus described my invention, I claim 1. A meat-tenderercomprising, in combination, two confronting sector-shaped plates one ofwhich is fixed and each provided with spurs substantially as set forth,and means for connecting said sectors whereby one seetor may be rockedupon the other sector.

2. In combination, in a meat-tenderer, two confronting sector-shapedplates one of which is fixed and the other of which is carried by apivotal support, each formed with projecting spurs as set forth, rods ccconnecting the said sectors, and means for maintaining the spurs of onesector in meshing relation to the spurs of the companion sector.

3. In combination, in a meat-tenderer, two confronting sector-shapedplates,one of which is fixed and each plate being provided withprojecting spurs, means'connecting said sectors, a pivotal support forthe movable sector whereby it may be rocked upon the companion sector,and means, consisting of handle e, whereby the movable sector may begrasped and rocked.

4. In combination, in ameat-tenderer, two able sectorand anoperating-handle e secured confrontingsector shaped piatespn'e of whichto the movable sector. I0 is fixed and each formed with projecting spursSigned at Norwich, Connecticut, this 4th as set forth, rods 00connecting the said secday of May, 1901.

5 tors, gears 02 d whereby the said sectors are FRANK H. ALLEN.

kept in operative relation to each other, arms Witnesses: V pivotedbeneath the acting face of the fixed ALONZO M. LUTHER, sector andpivotaily connected with the mov- MAY F. RITCHIE.

